{"id":3732,"date":"2001-12-24T19:54:52","date_gmt":"2001-12-25T02:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:50:52","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2001\/12\/24\/christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas eve"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We decided to shop today as the museums close early – its hard to believe its Christmas eve today. We started at a glass shop recommended to us here – it opens at 2 today. The store that sells St. Maria Novella perfumes and soaps has closed or moved. We ate lunch at Boul’ Mich’ Cafe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We shopped all day. We ended up in the Latin Quarter. I got myself figures of the Asterix comics my mom brought home for me to read when I was young, along with a box of 30 postcards from the comics.<\/p>\n

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\"Asterix<\/a>

Asterix and Obelix<\/p><\/div>\n

We found Harem, a jewelry store recommended by the owner of The Left Bank, one of Aviva’s favorite stores in Chicago. While Aviva shopped there, I got Paris soccer team jerseys<\/a> for Nathan and I. We found the rest of our gifts in the neighborhood. This neighborhood was very culturally diverse.<\/p>\n

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\"Business<\/a>

Business card for Harem, a nice jewelry store<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aviva<\/a>

Aviva in front of Chez Gandhi, one of the restaurants in this part of town <\/p><\/div>\n

We ate at Le Procope<\/a>, which dates back to 1686; Napoleon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac and Hugo all ate there.<\/p>\n

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\"Le<\/a>

Le Procope card with their history<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Le<\/a>

Le Procope business card front<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Le<\/a>

Le Procope business card back<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We decided to shop today as the museums close early – its hard to believe its Christmas eve today. We started at a glass shop recommended to us here – it opens at 2 today. The store that sells St. Maria Novella perfumes and soaps has closed or moved. We ate lunch at Boul’ Mich’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[743,732,744],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-asterix","tag-paris-2001","tag-paris-league"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t